CVE-2025-24993

What is affected

Vendor	Microsoft
Product	Windows
Weakness	CWE-122

The vulnerability

Microsoft Windows New Technology File System (NTFS) contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 1 April 2025 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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